Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Using Observation Protocol Scores to Make Inferences About Change in Teacher Practices, Jessica Lynn Alzen
“When Mathematical Activity Moves You”: an Exploration of the Design and Use of Purposefully Embodied Mathematical Activities, Models, Contexts, and Environments, William James Campbell
The Affective Archive: Supporting Critical-Affective Practitioners and Pedagogies in Teacher Education, Ashley Dawn Cartun
Transforming Everyday Teaching: Pedagogy and Collaboration Supporting Equity, Inclusion and Effective Instruction, Anne Oppenheim Davidson
Organizing for Relational Equity in Teaching and Learning: An Investigation of the Potential of Adult-Youth Relationships, Daniela Kruel DiGiacomo
Teachers’ Use of Instructional Moves During Technology-Based Mathematical Activities, Susan Beth Miller
The Priority of Democracy to Education Research, Kevin Murray
Teacher Directives and Learner Response in a Preschool Classroom: a Bilingual Case Study, Antonio Rodriguez
A Teacher at Risk: Giving Voice to Teacher Secondary Traumatic Stress, Ofelia Schepers
Mathematics Assessment in the Race to the Top Era: an Exploratory Study of the Semiotic Resources in Large-Scale Assessment and Their Use by Emergent and Non-Emergent Bilingual Students, Chelsey Amber Shade
The Academic Experiences and Trajectories of Gifted, Spanish-Speaking, Latino/a Bilingual Students: a Multicase Study, Clara Elvia Smith
Designing Science Learning Environments That Support Emerging Bilingual Students to Problematize Electrical Phenomena, Enrique Alberto Suárez
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Toward Equitable Teaching and Learning Opportunities: An Examination of STEM Education Reform Implementation, Carrie Denise Allen
Social Interaction and Design in an Online Multiliteracy Center, Alaina Feltenberger Beaver
From Lived Experiences to Game Creation: How Scaffolding Supports Elementary School Students, Ian Her Many Horses
College-Going Capital: Understanding the Impact of College Readiness Policies on Schools and Students, Sarah Ohle Leibrandt
“Stop Messin’ with Something!” Children Negotiate Collaborative, Multimodal Responses to Literature: a Study of Fifth-Graders’ Composing Processes, Identities, and Positioning, Kimberly McDavid Schmidt
Teacher and Student Supports for Implementation of the NGSS, Samuel Severance
Studying and Designing for Equity-Oriented Social Change, Leah Anne Teeters
Engineering Genders: A Spatial Analysis of Engineering, Gender, and Learning, Joanna R. Weidler-Lewis
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Standin' Tall: (De)criminalization and Acts of Resistance Among Boys of Color in an Elementary After School STEM Program, Vincent Basile
The Biliterate Writing Development of Emerging Bilingual Students at the Word, Sentence, and Discourse Level in a Paired Literacy Program in Grade Levels 1-5, Edilberto Jesús Cano-Rodríguez
Teachers as Critical Users of Assessment for Emerging Bilingual Students, Ashley Meghan Chrzanowski
The Marginal Edge of Learning Progressions and Modeling: Investigating Diagnostic Inferences from Learning Progressions Assessment, Ruhan Circi Kizil
Getting More out of the National Assessment of Educational Progress: Investigating Dimensionality at the State-Level, Nathan L. Dadey
Investigating Science Teachers Informal Formative Assessment Practices Addressing Science Academic Language in Emergent Bilinguals, Karla del Rosal
Decolonizing Teacher Education: Explorations of Expansive Learning and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in a Social Design Experiment, Michael C. Domínguez
Student Conceptions of Functions: How Undergraduate Mathematics Students Understand and Perceive Functions, Ryan Grover
Dilemmas of Reform: Science Teachers Collective Sensemaking of Formative Assessment Practices, Sara Catherine Heredia
Pathways Toward Proficiency: A Case Study of Bilingual Students'Opportunities to Learn Academic Language, Jaclyn Hernandez
No Teacher Left Behind: Teachers' Perceptions of their Emerging Bilingual Students and How These Impact Opportunities to Learn, Cristin Jensen Lasser
Through No Fault of Their Own? A Critical Discourse Analysis of the DREAM Act and Undocumented Youth in Evening Television News, Ruth María López
Democratic Ideals in American Education Policy, Practice, and Scholarship: A Philosophical Analysis and Reconstruction, David Eric Meens
The intertwinement of activity and artifacts: A cultural perspective on Realistic Mathematics Education, Frederick A. Peck
The Affective Dimensions of Learning at El Pueblo Mágico: An Analysis of the Practice of El Maga Letter Writing, Daisy Merrill Pierce
“We want to bring them into what we love”: An investigation of desire in two alternative teacher preparation programs, Ian Parker Renga
The language ecologies of emergent Spanish/English bilinguals: A comparative case study of five preschool classrooms, Nicole Marie Sager
Returning to School: Unraveling the Model of Barriers and Baggage, Julia Suzanne Sarris
Making Space for Unsanctioned Texts: The Queer Sensibility of Youth in the Construction of High School Writing Assignments, Michael Wenk
The Social Organization of Learning Opportunities in Creative Civic Practices, Adam York
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Does it Say That? How Teacher Questions Mediate Dis/Ability in an Era When the Text and Test Have the Final Say, Amy Lynn Boele
How Parents Choose the ‘Right Fit’ and Why It Matters for Public Education, Kristin Lynne Davidson
Opening Pandora's Box: Exploring Educators' Conceptions of Culture and Multicultural Education, Michelle Jane Drummond
Democracy In Dispute? Ballot Initiatives, Education Policy, and Equal Educational Opportunity, Amy Nichole Farley
Qualitative Methods, Transparency, and Qualitative Data Analysis Software: Toward an Understanding of Transparency in Motion, Kirsten Jackson
Postsecondary Pathways: How First-Generation Rural Youth Negotiate College-Going, Hannah Rose Jones
Tilling the Soil for LGBTQ Inclusive Policies: A Case Study of One School's Attempt to Bring Policy into Practice, Bethy Leonardi
Who Comes Back? Exploring Reengagement within the School Year, Heather L. MacGillivary
Disrupting Common Sense through Transformative Education: Understanding Purposeful Organization and Movement Toward Mediated Praxis, Elizabeth Mendoza
Enacting Diversity and Racial Projects on College Campuses: Tensions and Possibilities for Transforming Pedagogical Practices, Christina Hong Paguyo
Beyond Common Sense: Preservice Teachers' Negotiations of Quality English Language Arts Teaching in an Era of Acute Accountability, Sara J. Staley
The Roots of Physics Students’ Motivations: Fear and Integrity, Ben Van Dusen
An Exploratory Study of Faculty Perspectives of the Challenges and Successes of Undergraduate International Students who are Learners of English as a Foreign Language, Summer Ariel Webb
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Updating Status: Tracing College Women’s Diverging Educational Pathways with Facebook, Erin Paige Allaman
Resistance and Resilience: The Education Trajectories of Young Women of Color with Disabilities through the School to Prison Pipeline, Subini Ancy Annamma
Prescribing Proficiency: The Intersection of Teacher, Students and a Mandated Reading Program in One Elementary School Classroom in the Climate of High-Stakes Testing, Andrea Caroline Bien
Talk amongst ourselves: Examining how heterosexual adults form and transform perspectives about homosexuality through dialogue with one another, Julie Eads Graves
Teaching to Learn: Analyzing the Experiences of First-time Physics Learning Assistants, Kara Elizabeth Gray
In Defense of a Deliberative Democratic Civics Education, Jarrod S. Hanson
Storying Our Claims, Claiming Our Stories: Becoming Through Narrative in the Social-Justice Focused Classroom, Julia Churchill Kantor
Creating Computer Simulations In Middle Grades Mathematics: A Study of a Technology-Integrated Statistics Curriculum, Krista Sekeres Marshall
A Process of Definition : Studies of teacher professional identity development in communities of practice at a KIPP school, Tanya Renee Rose
Challenging Traditional Assumptions of High School Science through the Physics and Everyday Thinking Curriculum™, Michael Joseph Ross
Becoming Through Composing: The Role of Storytelling in Learning to Teach, Makenzie Kathryn Selland
Organizing business for sustainability: learning in an emerging field of practice, Molly Victoria Shea
The Educational Research that Reaches the Public Via the News Media: Who Produces it and How it Gets There, Rachel Holly Yettick
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Fidelity of implementing an assessment translation and adaptation framework in a study of an emerging international assessment, Magda Yanira Chia
Evaluating the Equal-Interval Hypothesis with Test Score Scales, Benjamin W. Domingue
Racing: A Critical Race Theorist’s Qualitative Analysis of Whether African American Male Law School Alumni Were Mismatched or Maligned, Darrell D. Jackson
Identity and Figured Worlds of School Technology Use, Matthew Aaron Lessem
A Look into the Cross-Age Peer Mentoring Process and its Effects on the Individual, Jonnathan Edward Smith
The Use of Illustrations in Large-Scale Science Assessment: A Comparative Study, Chao Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Irony of Industrial Welfare and Progressive Education: The CF&I Sociological Department's Educational Programs In Southern Colorado, 1901-1915, Bradley Bartels
Racial Isolation in Charter Schools: Achieving the Goals of Diversity and Constitutionality in the Post-PICS Era, Wendy Cecilia Chi
A Validity Study of Interim Assessments in an Urban School District, Elena Kitaoka Diaz-Bilello
The Response to Intervention (RTI) Decision Making Process for English Language Learners (ELLs): Three Elementary School Case Studies, Amy Marie Eppolito
"Don’t Ruin My Pretend": Kids Sustaining Play Interactions in Out-of-School Settings, Suzanne Eyerman
Gender, Justice, and Schooling in ‘Postfeminist’ Times: A Critical Examination of the ‘Boy Crisis’, Samara S. Foster
Teacher Retention: Estimating and Understanding the Effects of Financial Incentives in Denver, Eleanor Spindler Fulbeck
Assessing a New Approach to Class-Based Affirmative Action, Matthew Newman Gaertner
Effects of a Transnational Teaching Program in the Development of Cultural Critical Consciousness, Jose Maria Garcia-Paine
Talk in Blended‐Space Speech Communities: An Exploration of Discursive Practices of a Professional Development Group, Tabitha Ann Garvin
Transformative Professional Development and Teacher Engagement, Kimberly E. Geil
Undergraduate Physics Course Innovations and their Impact on Student Learning, Heidi Louise Iverson
Exploring problem solving strategies on multiple-choice science items: Comparing native Spanish-speaking English language learners and mainstream monolinguals, Rachel Rae Kachchaf
Investigating the Role of Formative Assessments in an Online Learning Environment, Regina Marie Pallios
Good Kids, Bad Kids: The Social Construction of Reputations for Youth Growing Up Rural, Kristen Margaret Pozzoboni
Mathematical Views within a Lakota Community: Towards a Mathematics for Tribal Self-Determination, David W. Sanders
Student Affect toward Feedback Provided in High School Classrooms, Eric Samuel Skrla
Droppin‘ Knowledge: Black women‘s communication and informal learning in an online community, Leslye Carynn Steptoe
Validity Issues in the Evaluation of a Measure of Science and Mathematics Teacher Knowledge, Robert Merrill Talbot III
Is Math Always Math? Examining Achievement Growth in Multiple Dimensions, Jonathan Paul Weeks
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Reading Immigration Stories: Emotion and Literary Imagination in School-Based Book Clubs, Mark A. Lewis
Aspirations, Involvement, and Survival: Immigrant Latino Youth Navigating School and Community, Emily Wexler Love